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TIL Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have actually hung a man. Serving as Sheriff of Erie county, he hanged at least two convicted murderers.

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9wAAr TIL that Leonard Cohen didn’t gain any royalties from his 1968 song "Suzanne", and he only benefited from the song when he performed it live, as he signed away his rights to the song in a legal document deceptively presented to him which he did not read.
wox7 TIL That the survivors of the USS Arizona can have their ashes placed inside the ship which lies in Pearl Harbor to be reunited with the 1,177 who died Dec 7, 1941.
DPeD TIl that in 1379, a baby was born named “Diot Coke”
Z8n0Y TIL about Msscribe. Someone who had the Harry Potter Fanfiction community fooled for years. Or, as this video described her, "one of the internet's most impressive liars"
QJKVM TIL about Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian who took 11 commandos into the fjords aboard a fishing boat full of explosives to sabotage the Nazi's. His feet froze solid and an avalanche buried him. He used a knife to amputate his frostbitten toes. His escape made him into a Norwegian national folk hero